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(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
provision of passage accounts, to be used by staff
for travel purposes at their discretion and within
specified periods;
a more flexible application of the Government's 10-year residence rule to include study time for determining overseas status;
the award of "overseas" status to academics
the PRC, Taiwan and Macau; and
streamlining immigration procedures in respect of "overseas" candidates, particularly those from the
PRC.
The measures referred to in (b), (e), (f) and (i) would not involve additional funding. The financial implications in respect of the remaining proposals will need to be assessed by the
institutions; and the provision of additional funding will be the subject of a submission(s) to
to Finance Committee in the normal way.
25.
Q
of the
submissions from
Further, the UPGC has, at the request
Government, addressed a related issue
the two Polytechnics and the Baptist College, proposing that the salaries paid to their academic and equivalent administrative staff be revised to accord more closely with those paid to University staff. Members have concluded
that the stage has been
been reached in the development of tertiary education in Hong Kong where a common salary scale should be introduced for academic staff employed in all the institutions. It is recognised, however, that it will be
necessary to differentiate between the progression of staff
in the university and non-university sectors
by the
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